Thevetia peruviana seeds

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• Published Subscription 26 Dec 2011

  Extraction of Thevetia peruviana Seed Oil and Optimization of Biodiesel Production Using Alkali-catalyzed Methanolysis

  By Shrikant Balkisan Dhoot, D.R. Jaju, S.A. Deshmukh, B.M. Panchal, M.R. Sharma

  Abstract: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Crude Thevetia peruviana seed oil was used as a feedstock for biodiesel production using alkali-catalyzed methanolysis. Effect of various solvents and solvent combinations on the extraction of seed oil showed that chloroform is the best amongst all other solvent studied with 48% w/w oil yield. The optimized process conditions for Thevetia peruviana biodiesel production were an oil-to-methanol ratio of 1:6 w/w, catalyst …

  Published in Journal of Alternate Energy Sources & Technologies · Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2011 Read article →